quilt
a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance, as wool or down, between them and stitched in patterns or tufted through all thicknesses in order to prevent the filling from shifting.
anything quilted or resembling a quilt.
a bedspread or counterpane, especially a thick one.
Obsolete. a mattress.
to stitch together (two pieces of cloth and a soft interlining), usually in an ornamental pattern.
to sew up between pieces of material.
to pad or line with material.
to make quilts or quilted work.
Origin of quilt
1Other words from quilt
- quilter, noun
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How to use quilt in a sentence
If you want to put in a floor, sew a quilt, knit a scarf or paint a wall, you will use algebra to find out how much material you need.
Or, and this seems just as likely, computing may splinter into a bizarre quilt of radical chips, all stitched together to make the most of each depending on the situation.
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Efforts to map reopening around the country end up looking like patchwork quilts.
A sample from a cotton quilt with batting also worked very well in the tests as did four layers of silk.
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Historical photographs on view in the exhibition show a crazy quilt of painting and sculpture.
The Most Wanted Warhol: A Scandal at the 1964 World’s Fair | Jessica Dawson | April 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe final product is an appropriately “salmon” colored quilt.
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On another wall was hung a gaily colored quilt made by Harris.
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Zeal had undressed, extended himself on the bed, and covered his body with an eider-down quilt.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonHis grandfather submitted, and Gwynne dropped his arm and rearranged the quilt over his cousin's body.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonOur attention was attracted to three or four windows that looked much like the crazy-quilt work that used to be in fashion.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyHe sat down on the side of the cheap, iron bedstead, and emptied his pockets on the top quilt.
Cabin Fever | B. M. BowerAbove, in the lower lofts, every conceivable human oddity was assembled in a sort of mercantile crazy quilt.
The Woman Gives | Owen Johnson
British Dictionary definitions for quilt
/ (kwɪlt) /
a thick warm cover for a bed, consisting of a soft filling sewn between two layers of material, usually with crisscross seams
a bedspread or counterpane
anything quilted or resembling a quilt
to stitch together (two pieces of fabric) with (a thick padding or lining) between them: to quilt cotton and wool
to create (a garment, covering, etc) in this way
to pad with material
Australian informal to strike; clout
Origin of quilt
1Derived forms of quilt
- quilter, noun
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